The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-08
General and Miscellaneous.

The national convention of travelling freight
agents will be held in Detroit on Aug. IL and Il
Minneapolis is to have belt road, one which
will connect all of it's roads and the newly COM
peted stockyards.
Two elegant vestibule trains have been placed
on the Boston e. Maine road to run between Bos-
ton and Bar Harbor
Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New
York Central road, sails for Europe next week.
He combines pleasure with business in making
the trip.
The new line connecting the Northern Pacific
with the Winnepeg road is unquestionably to be
built at once despite the Kicks of the Dominion
government.
The railroad commissioners of South Carolina
report the earnings of the roads of that State
being highly satisfactory and largely in excess
of those of the corresponding period in 1886.
On Wednesday the Pullman Car Company eff
fected purchase of the sleeping-car service on
the Wisconsin Central road and Immediately
equipped the lines with sleepers of the genuine
Pullman pattern.
The Little Rock & State-line road was incor-
porated Wednesday. The road is to
from Little Rock west to the Arkansas State
line, distance OF 160 miles 1t will pass through
rich mineral fields.
The Chicago, Kansas G. Western. a branch of
the Atcnison, Topeka & Santa Fe, is being
pushed forward vigorously. Counties are voting
from $50. 600 to $4,000 subsidies and all along
the line new towns are springing up.
The Baltimore Sun, of the 9th, SAYS: ''The
statement is made by persons close to the Balti-
more q Ohio interest that the details for the
sale of the road have progressed SO far that an
authentic utterance is looked for daily"
A. J. Stevens, general master mechanic of the
Central Pacific railroad. is building thirtyseven
new locomotives at the companys shops, at
Sacramento. Several of them are heavy en-
gines. of the Ell Gobernador type. with Stevens
valve motion, which is reported to be giving en-
tire satisfaction mechanically. and means
of saving steam.
The Schenectady locomotive-works have Just
n n cir Two ma moth
motives for the Colorado Midland road They
rest on five pairs of drivers; the cylinders 10
by a. and the drivers Sc inches in diameter.
These engines weigh ffty-seven tons and
provided with the American steam brake all
drivers; the LeChatalier brake on the cylinders.
and the Westinghouse on the wheels OF the ten
der.
The order Of the transcontinental lines that
present rates be continued indefinitely is making
shippers in this territory feel good, as ad ,
vance was expected yesterday. The action of
the transcontin lines, however, is in accord
with the decision of the National Railroad
Commission that it has right to suspend the
law, but that the railroads themselves lust de-
termine whether they may ignore Section of
the law not, and if their action is found to be
illegal by the courts the roads must take the
consequences No likely to complain lest
it place the shippers in worse condition than
they are now.
The Chicago & Rock Island appears to have an
mbition for covering Kansas with railroads.
The main trunk starts from st. Joseph, Mo-, and
runs through Topeka TO Harrington, where it
branches out, one line running south from Sum
ner county. and the other southwest from Her
rington. in Dickinson county. The map shows
the branch from Pierce to Atchlson. eighteen
miles Their line from Kansas City to Topeka
from Harrington to Abilene via Salina, and their
line from point three miles this side of Alma,
Waubapsee county, to Bell. Republic county. to
connect with the Denver line from Belleville,
the county-seat Of Republic county, Mankato,
the county-seat of Powell county, contin-
uing directly west Smith Center,
county-seat of Smith county, and to
Phillipsburg. the county-s seat of Phillips
county, which is as far as the line is located at
present. Passenger trains on the main line,
present running to Harrington, will be continued
to Mcpherson, on the southwest line, and Elbins,
Butler county, the south line, about two
weeks Track-layers are expected to reach
Wichita by the 10th of July.